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The Ishikawa International Urushi Exhibition 2023 will begin once every three years. The exhibition will be held from Thursday, November 9, 2023 to Tuesday, November 21, 2023. The Urushi artist Onishi Nagatoshi serves as chairman of the jury, and is a joint festival of Asian lacquer art and Western...

What do you see in these photos? A delicious-looking Taiyaki sweets, an expensive vase, an antique incense burner, a worn-out monkey wrench, a beetle incense holder, a sharp chisel, a Damascus steel knife, and bonsai scissors...

However, these are all imitations made of Urushi. These are a number...

"Kyu-shitsu", which refers to all types of Urushi lacquer coating, is the origin of Wajima-nuri, which began with plain practical lacquerware, and is an honor for the skills that have been accumulated over a long period of time. On the other hand, with the modernization of crafts, it has been establ...

Venice Oriental Museum Seminar “Overview of Japanese Lacquer Art”

Urushi Workshop: Simonetta Capetta, Kenta Takeshige

A workshop in collaboration with Urushi LAB and Guild LacArt, Milano, Italy.

Urushi Workshop: Nathalie Posson, Kenta Takeshige

A workshop in collaboration with Royal Antwerp Academy of Arts, Belgium and NPO De Kunstkliniek ‘URUSHI ~An Introduction in practice~’

We practiced the Roiro-nuri technique by applying a series of processes from the foundation layers to the coati...